The Art of Improvement
Karen Clauss interviews guests about their lives and businesses.
Episodes
July 19, 2024 • 22 mins
Andrea Liebross is a business and life coach specializing in working with unapologetically ambitious women entrepreneurs from a variety of industries. A speaker and host of the Time to Level Up podcast, Andrea guides her clients to combine big thinking with solid systems that work together to unleash their success and find the freedom of time, money, and energy they crave. She is excited about the release of her book She Thinks Big...
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July 16, 2024 • 21 mins
Duncan Cork, President of BFT (Body Fit Training)
BFT is a group strength training concept backed by science, where personal training meets boutique fitness. With nearly 300 studios around the world, BFT is seeing strong growth in North American after its acquisition by Xponential in 2021. The BFT team opened more than 30 studios in 2023 alone, and secured more than 500 signed franchise agreements, which should triple the brand’s si...
BFT is a group strength training concept backed by science, where personal training meets boutique fitness. With nearly 300 studios around the world, BFT is seeing strong growth in North American after its acquisition by Xponential in 2021. The BFT team opened more than 30 studios in 2023 alone, and secured more than 500 signed franchise agreements, which should triple the brand’s si...
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June 26, 2024 • 22 mins
Teresa Johnson, CEO of Leading pottery painting franchise Color Me Mine
https://www.colormemine.com/
Color Me Mine was founded in 1991 and is based in New Orleans, LA. It is the only contemporary paint-your-own pottery franchise in the industry, and has an international presence with more than 120 locations across the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, and the Philippines. Acquired by Twist Brands LLC in 2020, Color Me Mine provides ...
https://www.colormemine.com/
Color Me Mine was founded in 1991 and is based in New Orleans, LA. It is the only contemporary paint-your-own pottery franchise in the industry, and has an international presence with more than 120 locations across the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, and the Philippines. Acquired by Twist Brands LLC in 2020, Color Me Mine provides ...
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June 26, 2024 • 24 mins
Jim Sliney Jr., Chief Patient Officer at Patients Rising
https://www.patientsrising.org/
Imagine this: you call your insurance cohttps://www.patientsrising.org/mpany with a simple question about an outstanding charge on your account. They can't answer it and direct you to your doctor’s office, which then blames the pharmacy, who tells you to call your insurance back. How many times does the average American find themselves in this fr...
https://www.patientsrising.org/
Imagine this: you call your insurance cohttps://www.patientsrising.org/mpany with a simple question about an outstanding charge on your account. They can't answer it and direct you to your doctor’s office, which then blames the pharmacy, who tells you to call your insurance back. How many times does the average American find themselves in this fr...
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May 28, 2024 • 23 mins
Melissa (Mel) Turnquist, CEO, Texas Center for the Missing has 20+ years of nonprofit development, community education, and training experience. As CEO of Texas Center for the MIssing, she is responsible for financial accountability, board development, marketing, education and outreach, and fund development. centerforthemissing.org
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May 28, 2024 • 23 mins
Lou DeFrancisco, President of Lindora, a leading provider of medically guided weight loss and wellness services. Founded in 1971 in Southern California, Lindora has established itself as a trusted brand in the health and wellness industry, improving many lives across millions of client visits. Lindora is growing quickly with franchise locations across America. lindora.com
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April 11, 2024 • 23 mins
Chris Michlewicz talks about FarmBox Foods: Designing, building and selling controlled-climate container farms that grow gourmet mushrooms, leafy greens, culinary herbs, micro greens, peppers, tree seedlings and barley fodder.
FarmBox provides you with the tools and knowledge to sustainably grow locally sourced food year-round in any climate, anywhere in the world. They handle all of your transportation logistics and shipping, and ...
FarmBox provides you with the tools and knowledge to sustainably grow locally sourced food year-round in any climate, anywhere in the world. They handle all of your transportation logistics and shipping, and ...
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Melissa B. Pergola, Ed.D.,R.T.(R)(M), FASRT and CAE of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Pergola talks about the importance of their new Be Seen campaign. Pergola also talks about the importance of being your own patient advocate.
https://www.asrt.org/beseen
Radiologic technologists are eligible for Active membership if they are registered in a primary modality by certification agencies recognized by the ASRT or...
https://www.asrt.org/beseen
Radiologic technologists are eligible for Active membership if they are registered in a primary modality by certification agencies recognized by the ASRT or...
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February 20, 2024 • 22 mins
Michael Benzaia represents ASRT, American Society of Radiologic Technologist. Medical Imaging professional and actor, Benzaia has over 15 years experience in the medical imaging profession. His experience as a health care professional caring for patients and operating state of the art medical imagine equipment is part of the reason he's able to make his on screen roles in shows like General Hospital and Law & Order so convinc...
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February 20, 2024 • 21 mins
Attorney Sasha Begum, with the Pelaez Law Firm and Crash Angels is a transactional attorney with both big law and in house counsel experience. She has a distinct educational background in that after completing her J.D. at American University, Washington College of Law, she was one of only 3 in her class selected to participate in a dual degree program where she spent 2 years studying in Spain. Begum talks about her career, her law ...
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February 8, 2024 • 24 mins
Mike Cheek, CEO with SNP Alliance which is dedicated to improving policy and practice for frail, disabled, and chronically-ill beneficiaries. Cheek came to the SNP Alliance from his role as the Senior Vice President for Reimbursement and Market Strategy for the American Health Care Association/ National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). Prior to this role he was the director of Medicaid Long Term Care for the District of Colu...
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February 7, 2024 • 22 mins
Mike Sykes, CEO of the US Aviation Academy says If you have a passion for mechanics, or are looking for a career change, US Aviation Academy’s accelerated A&P Mechanic courses are designed to get you to work fast. He says after graduation, candidates can prepare to find diverse career options for starting pay in the high 60s. The academy also provides flight training allowing you the best flight training experience in the world...
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February 7, 2024 • 21 mins
Garrett Sutton and Ted Sutton, Corporate Attorneys and Authors.
The father and son law team discuss the Corporate Transparency Act, the new law that no one is talking about. Corporate Direct assists clients with asset protection. They discuss the new Corporate Transparency Act and why it's important...especially for small business owners nationwide.
https://corporatedirect.com/
Ted is also the author of"Five Tricks to Teach Your Kids ...
The father and son law team discuss the Corporate Transparency Act, the new law that no one is talking about. Corporate Direct assists clients with asset protection. They discuss the new Corporate Transparency Act and why it's important...especially for small business owners nationwide.
https://corporatedirect.com/
Ted is also the author of"Five Tricks to Teach Your Kids ...
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February 7, 2024 • 24 mins
Joan Ulsher, CASA Advocate and Author of Misplaced Childhood. Ulsher suffered abuse as a child, was in and out of foster care, and, as an adult, became a CASA Advocate to help ensure other children like her have someone in their corner. https://www.joanulsher.com/
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January 23, 2024 • 22 mins
Claire Stepanek is the founder and CEO of ergo, a startup developing pricing software that gives consumers an option to negotiate pricing with retailers through an online software plugin. Stepanek came up with the idea for ergo while working on the supply chain team at Apple, which manages the vendors that make the parts that flow into Apple products, where she found the most successful strategy for often negatively labeled “stress...
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Melissa B. Pergola, Ed.D., R.T.(R)(M), FASRT is the CEO and Executive Director of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). Dr. Pergola is a registered radiologic technologist with an extensive career in clinical practice, radiologic science education, hospital operations and leadership roles. She also has more than 25 years of experience as a volunteer for the ASRT, North Carolina Society of Radiologic Technologists...
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Blair Ortmann, Vice President of Mission Advancement/Child Advocates San Antonio Child Advocates San Antonio (Court Appointed Special Advocate) The mission of Child Advocates San Antonio (CASA) is to recruit, develop and lead highly impactful court-appointed volunteer Advocates who provide constancy and support for children and youth who have experienced abuse and neglect. Go to their web site CASA-SATX.org and register for one of ...
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January 4, 2024 • 23 mins
Jamie Krasnov, CEO at Apex Leadership Company, heads a dynamic fundraising franchise for elementary and middle schools. He's been instrumental in steering the company's strategy and execution to increase value to the Apex franchisees and Apex schools across the nation.
https://apexleadershipco.com/
https://apexleadershipco.com/
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December 7, 2023 • 24 mins
Bruce Frasier, CEO and Owner of Dixondale Farms graduated from West Point and ended up and has ended up an integral part of the growth and success of Dixondale Farms. He has led them to successfully control 90% of the onion plant market in the United States and the largest cantelope grower in Texas. the 24 hour a day, seven day a week work involved in growing onion plans usually end in May and then cantaloupe production begins. It'...
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November 9, 2023 • 23 mins
As an experienced San Antonio LASIK eye surgeon, Dr. Carlos Manrique de Lara recommends Blade-Free Z-LASIK for his LASIK patients. Z-LASIK is a modern LASIK technology and Dr. Manrique is a trainer for this technology. LASIK eye surgery can treat nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. Dr. Manrique is a Board-Certified Ophthalmologist with over 20-years of experience and has performed over 67,000 laser vision correction pr...
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